The unbearable lightness of lying
Ever since French President Emmanuel Macron told a credulous Australian media that he doesn’t think, he knows, that Scott Morrison is a liar, it’s been full steam ahead for Canberra’s Industrial Lying Complex.
Not that we should always trust the French. As we found out with their dysfunctional submarine KPIs, Rainbow Warrior diplomatic truthiness, their unsymmetrical bread sticks and indecipherable films, the world’s most stylish and superficial people don’t really do substance or getting their facts right all the time.
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